Evie Shockley White Poems

  • 1.
    He's as high as a georgia pine, my father'd say, half laughing. southern trees
    as measure, metaphor. highways lined with kudzu-covered southern trees.

    fuchsia, lavender, white, light pink, purple : crape myrtle bouquets burst
    ...
  • 2.
    i. august 1619

    arrived in a boat, named
    and unnamed, twenty, pirated
    ...
  • 3.
    when your mother can rise from her place
    on the pew during the early service,

    early enough that the sun barely fills the sky
    ...
  • 4.
    when i was younger, trees
    were green, money was green, money
    grew on trees, or trees grew up
    and became money. now, money is clearly
    ...
Total 4 White Poems by Evie Shockley

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